I remember that there was an emperor who moved the seat of the government away from the Senate, thereby dismissing it. Do any of you know who it was?
I thought it was Domitian... http://military-leaders.suite101.com/ar ... r-domitian But I am not sure whether this change was what crystalled meant, since, I believe, it was reversed after Domitian's death... Crystalled is a gal, by the way. She said it somewhere that her name is Crystal
I thought that change was not reversed, but maybe I just do not remember Did Diocletian do something similar? Whatever it was, I haven't found it on wikipedia. Crystal
I found the answer. It was Palpatine. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKH9SlrYp98[/youtube] You can hurt me now.
Quasus, you were right, it was Diocletian: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Senate Domitian's reforms were short-lived: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domitian
Indeed there were emperors who used to esteem the Senate, while others eum unius aestimebant assis if not less. As mentioned before, Diocletian was the first to move the residence of emperors away from Rome on principle, thus robbing it of any political consequence. It was a part of his reforms; in particular, he introduced eastern king's luxury into the emperor's court. I'm reading Gibbon's "Decline and Fall".
I started to read that, but my aversion for abridged books put me off. Sent from my iPod touch using Tapatalk
